Positive Relationship Between Sleep & Thalamic Size in ME/CFS

Lack of sleep and sleep disorders is a major issue in ME/CFS that continues to frustrate patients and makes recovery and remission hard to obtain. The thalamus (a right and left pair of brain structures) is a key structure in sleep disorders and in certain cognitive functions previously shown to be impaired in ME/CFS patients.

A recent studyfound that there is a positive relationship between more sleep problems and thalamic volume in ME/CFS patients compared to non-ME/CFS controls. Here are the details: